GERMAN RETALIATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 6

GERMAN RETALIATION

BOYCOTTING THE ALLIES

ACTION BY BAX KCItS AGAINST BRITAIN AND FRANCE. ORDERS CANCELLED. Bv Telegraph Press Assn.—Copyright Australia;! and N.Z. Cabin Association. BERI.IN,_ Atari'll 15. The •’Frankfurter Z/itunu'’ .suites that a num'oi'r o.' (ii'i man hanks, including ilia K«'ii iishnuk, havc dis/ontinlli'll the purchase of cheques on London anil Pari.-. It has not yet l.eeii*<leeide<l to do the .-..line in regard to Indian and Beieinn banks. The Reichstag; has rati tied the agreement lietuveon tile (lovi'i mnent ami tlio shipowners sanctioning a total grant of twelve milliards tor tile reconstruction of the mercantile marine. The shipowners pledge themselves to build at least one-third of their former tonnage within a decade. Light millions ot' the sum has already keen hamled over. The barmen and Klberiehl textile mdustiial workers have joined in the sanction boycott campaign. They are cancelling almost all orders for raw materials from Allied countries, and are also provisionally refusing to accept delivery of orders. DISARMAMENT UPROAR IN THE REICHSTAG. BERLIN, March 15. There was considerable uproar in the Reichstag during the debate on disarmament, when the Communists vehemently denounced the attitude of the Bavarian Nationalists, who protested against the disarming of the self-de-fence organisations, and threatened to witndraw from the Coalition.